COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Silver futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), short positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures of the kind "SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 137,587 contracts on 20 January 2026, versus 139,229 on 13 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,024 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 140,521 contracts; they reached their minimum of 74,153 on 2 December 2008; they recorded their maximum of 230,187 on 6 August 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-06 | 141845.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 139229.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 137587.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in silver futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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